contentful
Contentful Delivery API Client
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and a permissive license. It is the official Python client for Contentful's APIs and is suitable for any Python project that needs to integrate with Contentful as a content source.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires valid Contentful space ID and access token obtained from the Contentful web app.
- Low friction installation with only two lightweight runtime dependencies (requests and python-dateutil).
- The package is actively maintained with a recent release and no known vulnerabilities, supporting current Python versions (3.9 through 3.13).
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license is permissive and places no significant restrictions on use, modification, or distribution in commercial or private projects.
last release 2025-08-29 (350 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-02 · 47 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 414,557 downloads/mo, #6,830 on PyPI
Alternatives
Verify before relying
pip install contentful
import contentful
client = contentful.Client('space_id', 'access_token')
entry = client.entry('entry_id')- Whether the library's rate-limiting recovery procedures are automatic or require explicit configuration.
- Performance characteristics when handling large content sets or deeply nested linked resources.
What it is and what it does
Contentful is a Python client for Contentful's headless CMS APIs. It provides a straightforward interface to fetch entries, assets, content types, and other structured content from Contentful's Content Delivery API or Preview API. The library handles authentication via bearer tokens, supports querying with filters and search parameters, and includes features like content type caching, localization, link resolution, and synchronization to keep local content in sync with the remote service.
The package depends only on requests and python-dateutil, making it lightweight to integrate into existing Python applications. It supports modern Python versions and includes built-in rate-limiting recovery, allowing developers to reliably retrieve content from Contentful without managing API retry logic manually. Configuration options cover API endpoint selection, locale defaults, compression, and error handling behavior.
Use it for
- Fetch structured content from Contentful to populate a static site generator or web application.
- Synchronize content changes from Contentful into a local cache or database for offline access.
- Query entries filtered by content type, locale, or custom search parameters for multi-language content delivery.
- Retrieve asset metadata and generate signed URLs for embargoed or time-limited asset access.
- Build a content preview workflow using the Preview API with draft or unpublished content.
Worth the install?
AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page. Verify before relying on it.
Yes.
The package is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and a permissive license. It is the official Python client for Contentful's APIs and is suitable for any Python project that needs to integrate with Contentful as a content source.
Install
contentful on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction installation with only two lightweight runtime dependencies (requests and python-dateutil). The package is actively maintained with a recent release and no known vulnerabilities, supporting current Python versions (3.9 through 3.13).
Requires valid Contentful space ID and access token obtained from the Contentful web app.
License in practice
MIT license is permissive and places no significant restrictions on use, modification, or distribution in commercial or private projects.
Quickstart
pip install contentful
import contentful
client = contentful.Client('space_id', 'access_token')
entry = client.entry('entry_id')Verify before relying
- Whether the library's rate-limiting recovery procedures are automatic or require explicit configuration.
- Performance characteristics when handling large content sets or deeply nested linked resources.
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.9 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 2 packagesrequestspython-dateutil |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 350 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 414,557 / month, #6,830 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules |
Evidence: contentful-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl
Tags
Let your AI agent find packages like this
Example. Real query, live index.
You found this page by searching. An agent finds it by wishing: SkillFed indexes 14,416 PyPI packages by what they can do, searchable in plain language.
wish › “content delivery api”
- contentfulA Python client library for querying and retrieving structured…
- alibabacloud-cdn20180510Provides Python bindings to Alibaba Cloud's CDN API (version…
- rich-text-rendererConverts Contentful RichText field data into HTML or custom formats…
Give your agent the search over MCP, or paste the wish link into any chat.
More Python Modules packages
Converts domain names between Unicode and ASCII-compatible encoding (Punycode) according to IDNA 2008 and Unicode Technical Standard 46, with security validation and broader script coverage than the standard library.
Install it if you work with internationalized domain names, need to validate domains, or use HTTP clients that depend on it transitively.
Setuptools is a Python build backend and package management tool that handles building, distributing, and installing Python packages, including support for C/C++ extension modules.
PyYAML parses and emits YAML 1.1 data format, enabling serialization and deserialization of configuration files and Python objects to and from human-readable YAML text.
Pydantic validates Python data structures against type hints, coercing and checking input at runtime to ensure it matches a declared schema.
Provides reusable metadata objects for use with PEP-593 `typing.Annotated` to express common constraints like bounds, collection sizes, and predicates on types.
Install it if you use or build libraries that need to express type constraints in a standardized, inspectable way—or if you want to annotate your own types with…
Provides runtime tools to inspect and introspect Python type annotations, enabling programmatic examination of type hints at execution time.
See also contentful_management · rich-text-renderer · fastly · contentstack-utils · django-cms · twelvelabs · PowerPlatform-Dataverse-Client · mux-python · weblate-language-data · linkup-sdk